My 2025 Theme Verses: Ezra 7:10 (ESV) For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel. Daniel 1:8 (ESV) But Daniel resolved that he would not defile himself with the king’s food, or with the wine that he drank. Therefore he asked the chief of the eunuchs to allow him not to defile himself.
Friday, December 23, 2011
Even in the midst of God's Wrath we see His Gospel - Revelation 12-17
If I were to say I fully understand all aspects of all things Revelation I would be lying. I often struggle with what event goes where on God's timeline. The book is a tough book to understand fully. But, in these chapters it is hard to not see God's wrath poured out on the earth in general and mankind specifically. It is also not hard to see man's response to God, depite the wrath of God poured out upon them ... the refused to repent and continued to shout blasphemous things toward God (16:8-11). Each time an angel, a bowl, a message is delivered of doom the men of the earth continued to stand eract and failed to bow the knee to the God of Creation. Despite all those scenes, however, we see in 14:6-8 God still proclaiming the Gospel message to the lost and stubborn. Man may reject God but God, even to the bitter end, continues to offer salvation to man. That is the gospel message and mission. Man continues to reject God and God continues to offer the gospel. Man shouts out blasphemy while God shouts out blessings. Man continues to resist God while God continues to intice man. God, who WILL demonstrate His wrath in the end, will also demonstrate His grace and love to the end, as well. Man will reject that grace and love to the very end but that is not God's fault ... He has offered salvation to the bowed knee and heart. Man just can't seem to do that!
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